memwipe

[GrunEQ]

<p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Memwipe.  It feels stupid having to ask...but what is it and what does it mean when it happens?</span></p>

[Maroger]

<p><cite>GrunEQ wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Memwipe.  It feels stupid having to ask...but what is it and what does it mean when it happens?</span></p></blockquote><p>Basically it used to be that it wiped a mobs memory of you/your group  and he would no longer have you on his hate list.</p><p>However, it got severely nerfed in EQ2 so that it only lasts for maybe 1.5 seconds and personlly I don't think it really works at all. The short duration is suppose to make it easier to flee from the mob before he comes after you.  The duration renders it useless. Here it is called Amnesia.</p><p>It was a great spell in EQ1</p>

[GrunEQ]

<p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">I quess I mean, when the mob does memwipe.</span></p>

[simpwrx02]

<p><cite>Maroger wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>GrunEQ wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Memwipe.  It feels stupid having to ask...but what is it and what does it mean when it happens?</span></p></blockquote><p>Basically it used to be that it wiped a mobs memory of you/your group  and he would no longer have you on his hate list.</p><p>However, it got severely nerfed in EQ2 so that it only lasts for maybe 1.5 seconds and personlly I don't think it really works at all. The short duration is suppose to make it easier to flee from the mob before he comes after you.  The duration renders it useless. Here it is called Amnesia.</p><p>It was a great spell in EQ1</p></blockquote><p>Amnesia still works fine, however the coercer who casts it is on the hate list as it is a pffensive spell, also anyone who had any dot at all ticking on the mob will go back on the mobs hate list.  If you are going to try to use this ability then make sure that most dots have been cancelled and no one is auto attacking hte mob.</p><p>When a mob however has a memwipe ability it is normaly that on a randomish timer the mob will take its current target and significantly lower them on the hate list some times put them to the bottom, other times just drop them a few positions.  This requires the tank to attampt to rapidly climb the hate ladder to regain control of a mob, however in a raid where the majority of mobs that have ths ability there is normally an OT that is high enough on the hate list to extremely rapidly pick up the now out of control mob and move it back into a position of choice on a target of choice.</p>

[Writer Cal]

<p><cite>GrunEQ wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">I quess I mean, when the mob does memwipe.</span></p></blockquote><p>Basically, it forgets its hate list where maybe the tank was at the top and everyone below, usually putting a damage dealer or healer at the top of the list from the new hate they generate from continued heals/damage.  So the tank has to start fresh and get aggro back.</p>

[GrunEQ]

<p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Thanks, I think I understand the dynamics now.</span></p>

[Kordran]

<p>Just FYI, there's mobs that will also memblur. The difference is that, with a memwipe, the mob's hate list is completely reset. With a memblur, the player at the top of the hate list (typically the tank) is lowered in threat position. In both cases, the tank uses one of their snap aggro spells to get control of the mob again.</p>